Eye Of The Beholder: This Art Curator Has Built A Career Through Recognizing Black Expression

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By Jasmine Browley· Updated December 8, 2022

Hillbillies, poverty and whiteness are common terms many people associate with American Appalachia. Not Kreneshia Whiteside-McGee, though. When peeling back the layers of Appalachian culture, she was able to identify a swath of different colors at play. Namely, black.

Y’all Don’t Hear Me: The Black Appalachia is one of her latest multi-media exhibitions where she displayed the works of seasoned and emerging artists

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